Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph. D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He has worked on various international projects in the field of gravitational waves research, designing a thermal compensation system and data acquisition and control systems, and on others about x-ray microbeams, high voltage systems and space technologies. He participated in many conferences as a speaker of keynotes for different topics such as x-ray, space technologies, and power supplies. He is currently editor-in-chief of Power Electronics News and EE Times. He is the host of PowerUP, a podcast about power electronics, and the promoter and organizer of the PowerUP Virtual Conference. Moreover, he has contributed to a number of technical and scientific articles as well as a couple of Springer books on energy harvesting and data acquisition and control systems.